![]() ![]() ![]() It has one good twist and a couple of hit-and-miss ones. The story seems straightforward but it's anything but. It doesn't seem as profound as Use of Weapons or as thrilling as Consider Phlebas, but it's better than Player of Games, for sure. This is among the "weak" Culture books in my opinion, though it's still pretty impressive by any other standards. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace. There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself. The Department of Special Circumstances-the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section-has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. ![]()
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